I'm starting out at scene three here. Its seems like from here on out it's pretty much just everyone arguing with everyone else. In the beginning scenes we found out that Levene and Moss were planning on robbing the office to steal some of the better leads and sell them off to another guy for profit. Scene three starts out with Roma meeting a guy named Lingk at a restaurant and Roma pretty much runs his mouth the whole time. I may have missed something here but i really don't see where this scene fits into the whole play at all. But anyway act two starts out with the rest of the guys finding out that the office had been robbed and the leads had be stolen. This is where a lot of the arguing starts to begin everyone wants to blame everyone else for the robbery.
As usual Levene continues to act like a bad ass just because he closed an eighty two thousand dollar deal, which i have to admit i would be pretty proud of myself. But one of the things that i just don't like about him is that he just thinks he's better than everybody else, and that just drives me crazy. For example of page 76 when he is talking to Williamson he says, " Would you? Would you...? Or you're gonna what, fire me?" (page 76). And over on the next page he's talking trash to Roma he says, " What are you, you're a secretaty, John. FUck you. That's my mesage to you. Fuck you and kiss my ass. You don't like it, I'll go talk to Jerry Graff. Period. Fuck you." (page 77) I just don't see how Levene hasn't had his ass kicked yet, i just really don't like that guy. But anyways a little later on Williamson kind of puts two and two together and figures out that it was Levene that actually robbed the office. This is what Williamson tells Leven, " Well, I'm saying this, Shel; usually i take the contracts to the bank. Last night i didn't. How did you know that? One night in a year i left a contract on my desk. Nobody knew that buy you. Now hoe id you know that? You want to talk to me, you want to talk to someone else...because this is my job. This is my job on the line, an you are going to talk to me. now how did you know that contract was on my desk?" (page 99). After Williamson finally gets Levene to admit to it he also gets him to rat out Moss. The play ends with more arguing amongst everyone and with Levene trying to pay people off to keep him out of trouble but it's just not working.
To me my enjoyment of the play picked up a little more than it was in the beginning. It was a pretty quick read and once i got used to reading the "play" style format i was able to read it pretty quick. Overall i think it was a pretty decent play, kinda wish i could find out whats gonna happen to Levene though. Maybe he gets taken out by some mafia members or some hired guns by some of the other guys at the office haha.
schmuck- a surname of German orgin
prudence- is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason.
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